It is said that there as many ways to make a Bolegnese, or ragu sauce as there are families in Bologna, Italy. I found this one in a Food & Wine magazine, but it’s not my favorite. I like the recipe in the Saveur cooking Italian book better. But it went down just as fast …
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July 11: Friends of Steak
And sometimes, when it done as right as our friends do it, you just feel happy that they want to do something nice for you. We have found that we have an amazing network, or “Village” surrounding our family. Maribeth is a sweet soul, and people simply enjoy having her in their lives. And so, …
July 8: Pork Chile Verde
We are not wealthy enough to have a private butcher, but the best we can do is purchase our meat from our local, smaller grocer who knows exactly where these wonderful pigs have been grown and what they have eaten, and under what conditions. On special holidays, we opt for the big, black and fabulous …
July 7, Sunday Soup
Many families like to sit down to a nice, organized, at least semi-formal meal together on Sunday evenings. Maybe there was church in the morning, then yard or housework, some reading and homework, maybe a workout, etc. Pretty much the same for us, except that Sunday has become known around our house as Sukuma Wiki …
Ahhhh, Gainsbourg!
Living in the Greenwood area has allowed our family to consolidate many of our daily routines. Grocery shopping, workouts, dentist, a great toy store, pharmacy, and several fantastic restaurants.For the adults, there is the 21-and over French restaurant Gainsbourg, named after the French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor and director. …
Wait, hold that thought…
Before we can go out and work on our menu reading, we have a guest in the house and she is very special to all of us. As is her whole family. Our oldest daughter has a wonderful friend, and her own Mother was stricken with the HSV1 encephalitis virus herself about 8 years prior …
Post 5, now by date: June 27
…and sometimes, you just gotta go to Pete’s Eggnest on Phinney Ridge. Cheeseburgers, fries, gyro and because She can now navigate a menu with more accuracy as to what certain ingredients are, a beautiful Cobb Salad for Maribeth! It wasn’t too long ago that she was considering the Prawn Fajitas at Gorditos… not that there’s …
Post 4: Jessica Fechtor’s Recovery Ziti
Tonight Maribeth and Flora use a recipe for a pasta dish presented in a new book by Ms. Fechtor, titled “Stir”. It is a book written by a woman in recovery from a brain aneurysm and subsequent brain surgery. We had 6 for dinner and this provided a nice diversion to a day filled with …
Post 3: MB makes Honey-Soy Chicken
Different from learning words for the first time, recovering from the effects of aphasia means learning how to relearn what was once known to the brain, or easily remembered. As Maribeth continues to recover, we can see her brain teaching itself to remember, or recall words “lost” during the swelling and heat caused by the …
Meal 1: Butter Chicken
Ok, here we go! Week 1 of Maribeth and her loving family working to help recreate her library of words lost due to the effects of her brain being injured during a bout of HSV1 encephalitis that attacked her body and brain in September 2018. It has been a long and often difficult journey, but …
A Summer of Recovery - 5 Eagans In The Kitchen Together 